Sentiments Quotes
583 quotes by 425 authors
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What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek…
— Yukio Mishima
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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I…
— Oscar Wilde
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate…
— C.S. Lewis
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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the…
— Amy Carmichael
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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which…
— Alexandre Dumas
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But…
— David Hume
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I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.†He closed his eyes and laughed.…
— Patricia Briggs
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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
— Louisa May Alcott
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But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all…
— Alexander Pushkin
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I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I…
— Galen Beckett
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In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless…
— Cormac McCarthy
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A…
— Graham Greene
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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call…
— Jane Austen
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If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from…
— Jane Austen
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A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about…
— Deepak Chopra
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